The Arizona sentinel., 1887-10-08
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

unhCA JLAbAoh ulS III L1Oitt1 OOs OOOy wv can not read or write at all, and many of the other 200. 900 can barely do either. Boston Budget.
 Statistics show that in Germany S1.80 per cent. of the women are blonde, 1405 brunette and 54 15 mixed. Colonel Wright has never ventured upon this feature of statistical informa- ton.
 -Stilt-walking has become popu- lar sport in England, and h1s Its champion, who reached London the other day, having walked from Dun- dee, nearly five hundred miles; on stilts, in twenty and one-half days
 Sheffield, Eng, has just come into possession of a completed art gallery, well supplied with objects, the gift of a brewer who left e15. 900 to build the gallery, with his own collection of paintings. valued at f3OO 900.
 When a native of China Is bitten by a mad dog, and symptoms of hydro- phobia present themselves, the poor fellow is, according to custom in such eases. chained up by his hands and feet till death puts ah end to his sui ferings.
 In some of the European swim- ming-schools the pupils are taken out in boat and purposely upset as though the upsetting were accidental. They are also pushed overheard and subjected to all manner of accidents, in order to know how to act in case of real accident.
 Thirty thousand medals of one kind have been made for the Bulgarian army, sixty thousand of another kind, and Vienna factory is engaged in making an unlimited number of medals of yet another kind. And all for Bulgarian soldiers. Measured by medals, Bulgaria would rate as one of the greatest of all the European States.
 A large paddle-wheel steamer has been constructed in England for car4 rying passengers across the English channel which can make the trip from Dover to Calais in less than an hour. She is more than three hundred feet long. and her size and speed will do much to lessen the dread which tray elers have entertained of the sea jour- ney between England and France.
 In Chili, where women are horse thn xr-hD ,,,olya n business of flirting with the conductors are called mosquitoes, because they swarm so thickly around the cars and are so great nuisance. As the women are young and pretty in their neat uni forms of blue flannel and a many pocketed white pinafore trimmed with frills, it is not surprising that they at- tract passengers.
 A lecturer before the British M edi- cal society showed at the meeting that the mortality among the middle class in Dublin was more than double that of the professional and independent class. In the latter class the death rate during the last year was 13.4 per 1000 persons; in the middle class, 273; among the artisans and petty shop keepers, 223, and in the general service class and the inmates of work houses it was B z.
 A Plague of ants is repor ted from Nancy, in France. The insects were of immense size, some having wings. They fell in such large numbers that the inhabitants thought they were having a repetition of one of the Egyptian, plaques. The thick, black flakes kept falling for an hour and every part of the city was covered. It is supposed that the visitation was the forerunner of a violent storm which swept over the city the next day.
 An immense drainage work un- dertaken by the Russian Government contemplates the recovery of the vast region known as the Pinsk marshes, in the southwest of Russia, near the borders of Gallicia, and which hither- to has prevented communication, not only between the Russian districts on either side, but also between Russia and Austro-Germany. Up to the pres ent time about 4O00 900 acres have been reclaimed by means of the con- struction of several thousand miles of ditches and canals. IN T. Sun.
 London Engineering says that in Bournemouth the local board of com missioners have adopted a plan for using salt water for sprinkling the streets and flushing sewers. The cost will be five pence per thousand gal Ions, and when, at the end of thirty years, the cost of the plant is paid, it will be only three pence. On gravel roads in the vicinity of Portsmouth it was successful in preventing dust as it forms a sort of skin over the sur face. It Great Yarmouth it has been use for seventeen years and gives satisfaction.